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CVE-2017-18239
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-18T03:29:00.213 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:12:27.637

Summary

A time-sensitive equality check on the JWT signature in the JsonWebToken.validate method in main/scala/authentikat/jwt/JsonWebToken.scala in authentikat-jwt (aka com.jason-goodwin/authentikat-jwt) version 0.4.5 and earlier allows the supplier of a JWT token to guess bit after bit of the signature by repeating validation requests.

Affected products

authentikat-jwt_project — authentikat-jwt

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References

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